Home of Anna Wallace (1867-1952), in 1922 the first woman elected as Superintendent of Schools for Pocahontas County. Ten women were elected county superintendents in 1922, the first year WV women were able to run for that office after passage of . . . — — Map (db m104285) HM
On U.S. 219 at West Virginia Route 39 on U.S. 219.
On the morning of November 5, 1863, Union troops under General William Averell attacked Colonel William Jackson's Confederates around Mill Point, a site used by Jackson as a supply depot. As the skirmishing continued, Federal reinforcements led . . . — — Map (db m159701) HM
On U.S. 219 at State Highway 55, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 219.
Here in 1750 Stephen Sewell, a pioneer settler, camped. It was site of Fort Day, 1774. To the north James and John Bridger were killed in the Indian raids, 1778. Here James E.A. Gibbs invented the chain stitch sewing machine. — — Map (db m34341) HM